Removing the [R] from the RewriteRule breaks everything and no page is served:
RewriteRule ^/$ /home.htm **does not work** I'm curious: how does everyone else map the domain request to an actual page??? domain.com --to--> domain.com/home.htm Everyone must be doing this, right? What are other solutions for doing this? Pete On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:13:19 +0200, Trond G. Ziarkowski wrote: >Hi, > >try removing the [R] from your RewriteRule. If you read up on the >mod_rewrite docs, you should see that the [R] flag is causing the >redirect. > >Trond > >PAlvin wrote: > >>I'm currently using Tomcat 4. >> >>When someone goes to my site, say, www.site.com, I'd like it run a >>servlet for the home page instead of a static page (my entire site >>is >>dynamic). >> >>I configured the connector to send all *.htm files to Tomcat and I >>created a re-write rule in the Apache configuration file like this: >> >>RewriteEngine on >>RewriteRule ^/$ /home.htm [R] >> >>This works great, EXCEPT, that the browser is sent a redirect and I >>heard that is bad for search engines. >> >>I could send *all* http requests to tomcat, BUT, obviously, I DON'T >>want Tomcat serving up images. >> >>So, is there any way to configure Apache and/or Tomcat to make: >> >>www.site.com ---run--> www.site.com/home.htm >> >>without a redirect? >> >>How do I get www.site.com requests to go to Tomcat??? >> >>Peter Alvin >>mobile 719-210-3858 >>skype 'smartmicro' >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]